Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Duchovny

There are moments when you get out of your own head and you exist in the moment, and that can be good acting.

David Duchovny

Part of being an actor is letting things come about organically as opposed to forcing them.

David Brinkley

Nobody in TV makes as much money as Robert Redford, who likes to make movies for several million dollars only on the condition that they contain some sort of social message. I cannot take very seriously a social message delivered by an actor who is paid nine million dollars to deliver it, and who charges you five dollars to see it.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I have actual acting scars.

Benedict Cumberbatch

One of the best things about being an actor is that it's a meritocracy.

Benedict Cumberbatch

The armoury of having any academic education does not necessarily set you up for being a good or better actor.

Beau Garrett

Acting is an uncomfortable business because you have to make yourself vulnerable.

Beatrice Wood

You know, acting is very fascinating. But being an actress is not, because you become so concentrated on yourself.

Beau Bridges

Some of my oldest friends are actors. But that's not the only place my friends come from.

Bob McGehee

We had a very successful year in 2005, with ongoing earnings of $3.33 per share, significantly exceeding our 2005 guidance of $2.90 to $3.20 per share. These positive results reflected the benefit of positive weather as well as actions our management took to manage costs.

M. Powell

we're looking at those terrorist organizations who have the kind of capacity to conduct the actions of September 11.

Robert Rainy

A tendency could not but arise to reconcile with Christian profession a good many modes of life, enjoyments, occupations, social actions and customs, from which the first Christians had recoiled.

Havelock Ellis

Life is livable because we know that whatever we go most of the people we meet will be restrained in their actions towards us by an almost instinctive network of taboos

Atharva Veda

Life without goodness, good thoughts, good actions and good words is like the sky in the night without the moon or stars. It is like a wheel without a hub or spokes! No one can push a boulder away while standing on it; you cannot be free from anxiety while all the entrances through which it sneaks in are open.

Robert Nardelli

makes it necessary to take actions to ensure our continued worldwide leadership.

Brian McClung

Major League Baseball wants to see a resolution to the stadium situation. They didn't discuss specific actions they might take. They're interested in seeing the ball move forward on a ballpark." ()

Sathya Baba

Make the mind, the voice and the actions agree in harmony. That is the right way of life.

Gustav Kuhn

Magicians seem to be able to carry out secret actions in front of their audience without being spotted. I'm interested in why people don't perceive those actions.

Nana Sutresna

When I arrived there (in Pyongyang), they have just decided to hold a bilateral meeting with South Korea in the level of generals. They need a time to decide (whether to send defense minister in) the meeting in the level of defense minister.

Otto Rehhagel

When I arrived the players were talented, but did not obey the rules, ... Once they understood they needed to, they could then express themselves.

Randy Willis

When I arrived I was well received, and we learned together. Over the years, the students' abilities and competence improved greatly.

Jack Abramoff

When I arrived in prison, they locked the prison down that day because the media was all over the place.

Kris Anderson

When I arrived in London 11 years ago, restaurant service was terrible. It's getting better every year. Americans tend to be over-the-top about complaining.

Martin Henderson

When I arrived in L.A., I assumed I'd be able to put on the American accent. It proved difficult, so I had six months working with a dialect coach, and it's become a habit.

Chad Campbell

When I arrived here, my goal is to win the tournament, so that's what I'm looking for. We're only halfway through, but I'd rather be where I'm at now.

Bill Cole

When I arrived at William Penn, the program was already set for success. It was just my job to steer it in the right direction and keep it going.

Owen McClain

When I arrived at the broken pip, after crawling several yards under my house in the mud, grumpily; the black widow spiders noted my ire and fled. So, I was able to fix the leak unharmed by neurotoxic venom.

Mike Scioscia

We absorbed non-production from some guys the best we could,

Frank Maloney

Wayne McCullough and Michael Brodie stood toe-to-toe with him and that brought out the best in Scott.

Pat Onstad

We always have a good group, both on and off the field. It was that way with Frank (Yallop) and it continues with Dom. It's not about having the best players, but having the best group of players. We just always seem to gel.

Larry Kupczyk

We always get great crowds here. We played some of our best hockey that weekend.

Ron Allen

We always enjoy the games between us. We always have great contests. Larry and I have been best friends for 20 seasons out here.

Marcel Proust

We always end up doing the thing we are second best at.

Lord Melbourne

Wealth is so much the greatest good that Fortune has to bestow that in the Latin and English languages it has usurped her name.

Denis Waitley

The first best-kept secret of total success is that we must feel love inside ourselves before we can give it to others.

Denis Waitley

Give your best effort, because you are worth your best effort.

James Glassman

When you're an economist trained in conceptual stuff, you tend to be less intuitive. You fall back on this conceptual framework that the profession has invested a lot of time in.

Tao Lin

I don't think I understand the concept of regret. Because if I regret anything, that would mean, like, I hate myself.

Andrew Smith

Making the tax cuts permanent is one thing I think he can push through. That feeds into job growth and his concept of an ownership society.

Bob Podges

Liana is really starting to understand the concept of taking what she can get and not forcing it.

David Elkind

Learning teaches us what is known, play makes it possible for new things to be learned. There are many concepts and skills that can only be learned through play.

John Piper

The Christian - the biblical - concept of mercy toward wrongdoers only exists in relation to justice. Showing mercy, in relation to wrongdoing, means treating someone better than they deserve.

Michael Franc

The extent to which he used the State of the Union to launch and define the 'ownership society' concept is important because if you take it to its natural extreme, the ownership society would essentially replace the 'Great Society. That's a major shift from where we've been.

Richard Roundtree

When I did 'Shaft', I was so happy to be working and to have been a star of a major motion picture, I had no idea or concept of where it was going to go, and it turned out to be this huge film. That was the icing on the cake.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

The concept of God in Jewish orthodoxy is one where you're having constant quarrels with God. Where I come from, in Islam, the only concept of God is you submit to Him and you obey His commands; no quarreling allowed.

Harvey Weinstein

Last year, when 'Black Swan,' 'True Grit' and 'King's Speech' all grossed over $100 million, it gave studios and independent financiers the confidence to make daring movies and not do the same old you-know-what.

Kourtney Kardashian

I've been wearing lipstick since I was in 7th grade. That was our form of daring self-expression, because we had to wear uniforms in school. It made our teachers so angry.

Bayard Taylor

The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.

Cynthia Weil

The main reason he wanted to be a recording artist was because it gives you much more freedom in your writing. You only have to please the artist and the artist is you so you can be more daring and experimental.

Bill Fennelly

I thought we were a little intimidated inside. They were guarding us one-on-one and daring us to go to the basket. We missed way too many inside shots.

Claude Debussy

It is our duty to find the symphonic formula which fits our time, one which progress, daring and modern victory demand?

Jeff Trumbauer

He was a guy where we weren't daring him to shoot, but he wasn't probably the most threatening guy on the floor. He did a nice job and hit some big shots.

Jim Calhoun

We have weaknesses; we know that. So we have to become an execution team, particularly on a team that comes up and ball-pressures us, a team that says 'beat me off the dribble.' And you can, but they're daring you and trying to take you out of your offense.

Kevin Burbach

We were just taking what they were giving us in the first quarter. I think they were daring us to shoot (from outside).

David Brock

I have seen, and I know firsthand, indeed from my own pen, how the organized Right has sabotaged not only journalism but also democracy and truth.

Benazir Bhutto

Freedom is not an end. Freedom is a beginning.

Dennis Chavez

Either we are all free, or we fail; democracy must belong to all of us.

Al Gore

Take it from me - every vote counts. In our Democracy, every vote has power. And never forget - that power is yours. Don't let anyone take it away or talk you into throwing it away. And let's make sure that this time every vote is counted.

Blaise Pascal

The majority is the best way, because it is visible, and has strength to make itself obeyed. Yet it is the opinion of the least able.

Richard Holbrooke

We should not be surprised that democracy is imperfect even in Western countries.

Alexis de Tocqueville

The progress of democracy seems irresistible, because it is the most uniform, the most ancient and the most permanent tendency which is to be found in history.

Lionel Jospin

like a thunderbolt ... particularly worrying for France and for our democracy.

Elias Atallah

This was a second independence for us, and one that was made by the Lebanese people. It can only mean that accountability and democracy will advance.

Jonathan Dimbleby

I am going to vote for Ken Clarke. For years the wider electorate has told us that Ken Clarke should be the leader of our party and prime minister of our country,

Susan Howell

I suspect people not planning to come back will not even care. It seems to me the electorate is going to be more upscale and more white than it was, but what the numbers are going to be, who knows?

Rebecca Adams

I think the electorate would love to see those votes beforehand.

Ron Bevacqua

He was put there because he's popular with the electorate. For the most part he does represent the hope for some sort of change. I'm not entirely sure that the electorate wants a lot of change.

Peter Dunne

He wants to put his electorate first and I respect that decision,

Elaine Kamarck

Our paper is about winning. It's about understanding the electorate well enough to win the presidency.

Rick Thigpen

After 20 controversial years as mayor of the state's largest city, Sharpe James leaves office unknown to a third of the state's electorate and unacceptable to another third.

Kuldip Nayar

They really do not have any new ideas which might make them popular. The electorate now wants a more moderate force which will focus on the economy. Extremism is seen as hindering that.

Felipe Calderon

The circumstances in which Mexico is living have changed. I see an electorate that is much more critical, more rational.

Nong Duc Manh

I think everything should be governed by law. We don't want to keep secrets anymore.

Alan Rickman

The more we're governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more we need to tell stories to each other about who we are, why we are, where we come from, and what might be possible. Or, what's impossible? What's a fantasy?

Mary Radmacher

I will not be governed by the tyranny of immediacy.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.

Antoine Predock

The prime communities of the Southwest are survival communities. Their sustenance is governed by rainfall and wind direction. You can study little enclaves of plant materials, how they huddle together for protection. Some are nurse crops.

Solon

Society is well governed when the people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law

Rafi Pitts

I wanted to say that (the characters) are alive, but that they're being governed by winter.

Alexander Hamilton

Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals, for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.

Antonin Scalia

Originalism is sort of subspecies of textualism. Textualism means you are governed by the text. That's the only thing that is relevant to your decision, not whether the outcome is desirable, not whether legislative history says this or that. But the text of the statute.

David Remnick

I actually have great hopes for the future.

Baroness Orczy

even the worst moments and the weariest journeys must come to an end ...

Arnold Bennett

Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true.

Louis Lupin

We always hope we can resolve things short of litigation.

Felipe Alou

We always have big rallies when they walk him. I hope they don't stop walking him.

Amy Hill

We always get a lot of last-minute registrations. Hopefully we are on target to reach our goal.

Alain de Botton

We will cease to be angry once we cease to be so hopeful.

Charles R. Swindoll

Hope is like an anchor. Our hope in Christ stabilizes us in the storms of life, but unlike an anchor, it does not hold us back.

Blaise Pascal

Without the knowledge of our wretchedness, the knowledge of God creates pride. With it, the knowledge of God creates despair. The knowledge of Christ offers a third way, because in him we find both God and our wretchedness.

Billy Higgins

Let's just say that more intelligence is needed. You can't just run up and do this, you have to think about it.

John McCarthy

Foolishness is rarely a matter of lack of intelligence or even lack of information.

Bertrand Russell

Even when the experts all agree, they may well be mistaken.

William Shakespeare

I will keep where there is wit stirring, and leave the faction of fools.

Bertrand Russell

Of course not. After all, I may be wrong.

Bill Gates

There's no such thing as going to a soapbox and saying, 'The government's corrupt,' and not having the intelligence service see your face. In the digital world, that can be done.

Edgar Degas

There is no such thing as Intelligence; one has intelligence of this or that. One must have intelligence only for what one is doing.

Richard Durbin

For the president to suggest he had the same intelligence we had is just plain wrong,

Jewish Proverb

You don't need intelligence to have luck, but you do need luck to have intelligence.

David Hilbert

Wir mussen wissen. Wir werden wissen. We must know. We will know. Inscribed on his tomb in Gilttingen.

David Hilbert

We must know. We will know.

David Hume

It seems to me, that the only Objects of the abstract Sciences or of Demonstration is Quantity and Number, and that all Attempts to extend this more perfect Species of Knowledge beyond these Bounds are mere Sophistry and Illusion.

David Hume

We need only reflect on what has been prov'd at large, that we are never sensible of any connexion betwixt causes and effects, and that 'tis only by our experience of their constant conjunction, we can arrive at any knowledge of this relation.

David Hume

All knowledge resolves itself into probability. ... In every judgment, which we can form concerning probability, as well as concerning knowledge, we ought always to correct the first judgment deriv'd from the nature of the object, by another judgment, deriv'd from the nature of the understanding.

David Hume

All knowledge degenerates into probability.

Audre Lorde

Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.

Arnold Bennett

There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul.

Al Bernstein

Even more exasperating than the guy who thinks he knows it all is the one who really does.

Suzanne Fields

There are enough Poles in Chicago to make up one of the largest cities in Poland.

Kathy Deck

We know we have the largest properties in the sample and what we are missing is going to be very small.

Craig Anderson

People were so moved by the power of what Sara and Yvonne have done, and it's the largest response I've had for any movie that I've done.

Henry Paulson

China and the U.S. are the two largest importers of oil. They are the two largest emitters of carbon.

Joe Becker

We sheltered about 3.5 million people. The largest night was about 150,000.

Nick Frey

I don't have any problem with it. It may not be the largest in volume in the state, but the old vines have the longest tradition of the major varietals.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

To wish to progress is the largest part of progress.

Patch Adams

We are a breathtakingly alienated people... One of my props is the world's largest underpants. I've had the president of Costa Rica in my underpants with me.

Zac Goldsmith

More than half the world's largest 100 economies are corporations. They have no loyalties to place or citizens.

Sylvia Mathews Burwell

There are so many local nonprofits making a positive impact every day, and yet, oftentimes we don't hear enough about them or their needs.

Mary Mark

Make the most of your money. Use your local talent and try to have something for everyone's taste.

Mike Adams

Occasionally, you'll find a little tool. It all tells a story. I can show you some rocks that they used as a local source of materials.

David Dunn

Since Sept. 11, the local police, our role has changed, ... Before, we were worrying about burglaries, thefts.

Ryan Julison

She wants to support her local tournaments. We're disappointed, but we understand.

Jochen Zeitz

Unless the local community signs up, wildlife won't survive. And without wildlife, no one will visit.

Martin Klein

People want to come to a local landmark, ... They want to be comfortable.

Adam Schiff

People want someone whose top priority is local concerns, not national, partisan, ideological crusades,

Larry Rogers

Ninety-five percent (of the workers) will be from the local area.

Lesley Nicol

When you look back, I think things are as they are meant to be. Timing is very important.

Dee Romine

She has meant so much to our program. She is the ultimate team player and didn't shy away from taking the big shots.

Pat Summitt

She reached out at a time that meant a lot to me.

Jennifer Rizzotti

She willed us not just to win, but to play like this. Erika has meant everything to this team all weekend and all season long.

Maajid Nawaz

Satire is, by definition, offensive. It is meant to make us feel uncomfortable. It is meant to make us scratch our heads, think, do a double-take, and then think again.

Martin Jacques

We all know what is meant by the term 'international community,' don't we? It's the West, of course, nothing more, nothing less. Using the term 'international community' is a way of dignifying the West, of globalising it, of making it sound more respectable, more neutral and high-faluting.

Jude Law

What's it all about, Alfie? /Is it just for the moment we live? /What's it all about when you sort it out, Alfie? /Are we meant to take more than we give or are we meant to be kind?

Russell Smith

Frosh-week songs are meant to be offensive because offensive is rebellious.

Sara Hunter

On paper, I'm sure everyone thinks this year has been terrible. But our seniors meant so much to this team. It's so sad to see them go. We just need to keep building.

David Walliams

There's a sort of magic and music to comedy. Some words, some numbers even, are funnier than others. A Caramac bar, for instance, is funnier than a Milky Way.

David Hilbert

One can measure the importance of a scientific work by the number of earlier publications rendered superfluous by it

David Hilbert

However unapproachable these problems may seem to us and however helpless we stand before them, we have, nevertheless, the firm conviction that their solution must follow by a finite number of purely logical processes.

Benedict Cumberbatch

The number of people my age, younger now, a whole generation younger, who are fiercely bright, over-educated, under-employed and who are politicised and purposeless really upsets me. It's soul-destroying.

Barry Bostwick

I'll have the chance to do a production number on A Capitol Fourth.

Derek Fisher

I'm not chasing money, so I'm not looking at just trying to stretch out a deal artificially just to have a certain number.

Deb Caletti

The world was large, so large. Bigger than it had been before. Family, too, a bigger word. That felt like a good thing. An essential thing. There was power in numbers.

Deb Caletti

So I forcibly shove aside my prickles of pissed-off, which is easier than it sounds when millions of little sequined caffeine dancers are doing their big Broadway number on your internal stage. (Page 173)

Alan Dershowitz

If torture is going to be administered as a last resort in the ticking-bomb case, to save enormous numbers of lives, it ought to be done openly, with accountability, with approval by the president of the United States or by a Supreme Court justice.

Twiggy

My one big rule for the over-40s is don't try to dress like an 18-year-old. It's possible to be 'on-trend' when you're older - you just have to look for the right stuff. You don't have to spend a fortune, either.

George H. W. Bush

make it possible -- more possible -- to do our job.

John Corcoran

We did everything possible to save his life.

Sean McCormack

She raised (the case) in the strongest possible terms." ()

Beth Moore

Being yielded to God's authority keeps us pliable and open-minded to a possible change of plans.

Elizabeth Arden

I only want people around me who can do the impossible.

Jerry Angelo

We're going to look at every possible situation at that position. Always have, always will. We've got to get it right. We know that.

Robert Henderson

We're going to be very transparent and let them know any possible thing that happened.

Albert Osterhaus

Cat-to-human transmission is theoretically possible and not to be excluded.

David Hume

It seems certain, that though a man, in a flush of humour, after intense reflection on the many contradictions and imperfections of human reason, may entirely renounce all belief and opinion, it is impossible for him to persevere in this total scepticism, or make it appear in his conduct for a few hours.

David Hume

Eloquence, when in its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection.

David Hume

Eloquence, at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection, but addresses itself entirely to the desires and affections, captivating the willing hearers, and subduing their understanding.

Arnold Newman

Influences come from everywhere but when you are actually shooting you work primarily by instinct. But what is instinct? It is a lifetime accumulation of influence: experience, knowledge, seeing and hearing. There is little time for reflection in taking a photograph. All your experiences come to a peak and you work on two levels: conscious and unconscious.

Diana Quick

Good looks are not something you earn. But as you get older, how you look is a reflection of the life youve led.

Charles Darwin

A bad earthquake at once destroys the oldest associations: the world, the very emblem of all that is solid, has moved beneath our feet like a crust over a fluid; one second of time has conveyed to the mind a strange idea of insecurity, which hours of reflection would never have created.

Blaise Pascal

Our imagination so magnifies this present existence, by the power of continual reflection on it, and so attenuates eternity, by not thinking of it at all, that we reduce an eternity to nothingness, and expand a mere nothing to an eternity; and this habit is so inveterately rooted in us that all the force of reason cannot induce us to lay it aside.

Alexis de Tocqueville

The best laws cannot make a constitution work in spite of morals; morals can turn the worst laws to advantage. That is a commonplace truth, but one to which my studies are always bringing me back. It is the central point in my conception. I see it at the end of all my reflections.

Olesya Rulin

I was really blessed with parents who never said I couldn't do anything. And now I reflect as an adult on that, 'Wow, they never told me no!'

Jeffrey Steingarten

Yes, that pretty much sums it up. On this we can all agree.

Milt Palacio

They did what they had to do down the stretch, and we didn't. That sums it up.

Allan Houston

I guess, ... that sums it all up.

David Icke

It's amazing how everything fits together in the world of the Illuminati if you are prepared to dig deep enough.

Deepika Padukone

Realize that you are not alone, that we are in this together and most importantly that there is hope

Deborah Harkness

Pamela Smith and Benjamin Schmidt have gathered together a wide-ranging and provocative set of original essays that successfully demonstrate how contingent the process of making knowledge was during a period of fundamental epistemological change. This is a finely crafted and conceptualized collection.

Deb Caletti

Things that came apart could be put together again, but never exactly the same.

Dick Cavett

Every time someone says, 'You know, we really ought to get together,' if I were really honest, I would ask 'Why?'

Al Gore

You know there's an old african proverb that i made up. if you want to go quickly, go alone. if you want to go far, go together. we need to go far, quickly

Black Kettle

Although wrongs have been done me I live in hope. ... Now we are together again to make peace.

Billie Joe Armstrong

We stayed very close to each other [with Leek Kirk], and Lee was amazing. We'd go through the script together, rehearsing it before every shot with the other actors. He was just easy to work with. We were able to put it in my language, which was really important.

Alexis de Tocqueville

As for me, I am deeply a democrat; this is why I am in no way a socialist. Democracy and socialism cannot go together. You can't have it both ways... socialism is a new form of slavery.